1864 Early County News

The well known Stallion, John Burnam, will stand the ensuing Spring Season at the Stable of the undersigned, and at Dr. Mulligan’s. The charge will be $25 to insure a mare to be in foal. The season will commence on the 10^th of March, and end on the 10^th of June. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but no responsibility will be incurred for any. $1 to the Groom in each case. Payment will be required when the mare is ascertained to be in foal, or traded. He will be at Dr. Mulligan’s on the 14^th of March. Jas. LW. Alexander

Confederate Money Wanted!

Bring in your Confederate money, and I will sell you Plantation Iron, Osnasburgs, Nails, and other articles. I want all the Confederate money I can get.

For Sale

A No. 1 Negro Woman – good field hand, washer and ironer. For particulars, apply to Jas. W. Alexander

Notice to the Legatees and all others interested in the Estate of the late Davis E. Gresham .

Notice is hereby given that we are now prepared to make a distribution of said Estate. All parties interested will please come forward and receive their respective shares or amounts due them. As the Estate is now in money, we will not hold ourselves responsible for any loss therefrom after this date.

Whereas, Martin T. Alexander, Administrator on the Estate of Henry A. Hightower, deceased, applies to me for Letters of Dismission from said Estate: Theses are, therefore, to cite and admonish all persons concerned to appear at my office on or before the first Monday in September next, and file their objectives, (if any they have,) otherwise said letters will be granted the applicant.

Given under my hand, and official signature, this February 17^th, 1864 .

Whereas, James H. Wade, applies to me for Letters of Administration on the Estate of George McKinley, deceased: This is, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my office on or before the first Monday in April next to show cause (if any they have) why letters should not be granted the applicant in terms of law.

In the field again!

Iron, Nails, Tobacco, Snuff, and many other articles too tedious to mention.

All persons having demands against the Estate of Ashley Phillips, late of Early county, deceased, are requested to present them to me within the time required by law, or the same will be barred. Persons indebted to said Estate will please pay up.

Negroes for Sale

I offer, at private sale, a valuable Negro Woman 35 or 40 years of age – good cook, washer and ironer. Also a very likely boy about 17 years of age.

The Grand Jury, of Early County , selected, chosen and sworn for the April Term, 1864, make the following General Presentments:

Through appropriate Committees, we have examined the books of the different county offices, public buildings, roads, bridges, &c. We find the Treasurer’s books kept in first rate order. The books show a balance of county funds on hand of $559,86. Of the military fund we find on hand $1,517,77. We also find that the county has paid for one hundred and fifty bunches of Cotton, which it is expected will shortly arrive, and is to be sold to Soldiers’ families at $6,66 2/3 per bunch. There is in hand of Treasurer about 2,000 lbs. Of Salt to be sold to Soldiers’ families at the rate of 25 lbs. For five dollars.

In the Ordinary’s Office, we find his books all in good order, and neatly kept.

In the Clerk’s Office of the Superior and Inferior Courts we find the books in good order. We find, however, a deficiency of blank books, both in the Ordinary and Clerk’s Offices. We recommend that the Inferior Court procure suitable blank books for each of these Offices, at as early day as possible.

We find the Jail much in need of underpinning and other repairs, and call the attention of the Inferior Court to the same. The Court House steps are also needing some repairs, which we recommend to the proper authorities to attend to.

In many portions of the county we find the roads in band order, and we recommend the proper authorities to be more diligent in the execution of our road laws than heretofore.

From information obtained from our Ordinary, we suppose our poor school fund to be sufficient to meet all demands for the present year.

We as Grand Jurors, cannot but express our surprise to use no harsher terms a the late act of Congress, in relation to Tithes, compelling producers to pay five times the assessed value, instead of fifty per cent, advance when the tithes are not delivered, as was first designed by the law. We look upon the law, as it now stands, as exceedingly oppressive, not to say unjust, for the reason that many of our producers, availing themselves of the privilege of the law as it was before amendment, disposed of their tithes to indigent soldiers’ families in their neighborhood, at prices, in many cases, less than they would have to pay the Government as defaulters, and hence have not the produce now on hand to deliver. Again, there are some living more than fifteen miles from any Government depot, who, under an order from the Post Quarter Master for this district, were refused sacks in which to deliver their corn, at the season of the year when they could have done so, without injury to their crops, and therefore disposed of it, to their needy neighbors. There are still another class who did not make enough for their own consumption, and in consequence did not deliver, but are now compelled by the law to go into the market and buy at a very high rate sufficient to pay their tithes or pay the Government five times the assessed value. In all these classes there are many Soldiers families who, at first, were illy [sic] able to comply with the law, and who, by the advice of their friends at home, availed themselves of the privileges of the law as it at first existed, and who are now wholly unprepared to comply with this new requisition.

In view of these facts, we recommend that a public meeting of the citizens of this county be held at an early day, to petition the authorities for a suspension of this law until a public meeting of the citizens of this county be held at an early day, to petition the authorities for a suspension of this law until after a meeting of Congress, and to solicit our member of Congress from this district to use his utmost endeavors for the repeal of its obnoxious provisions.

To his Honor Judge John T. Clark, we tender our thanks for the faithful discharge of his duties, and his courtesy to our body during this term of the Court.

We also tender our thanks to C. B. Wooten, Sol. Gen. For his promptness and attention to our body during its session.

Forrest is supposed to have destroyed near twenty millions worth of Federal stores at Paducah .

Mrs. W. W. Fleming has our thanks for a nice lot of Turnip Greens, which are the first we have had this season.

Attention is called to the advertisement of D.S. Johnston. He wishes to exchange several necessary articles for provisions.

About one hundred and fifty Yankee prisoners, taken at or near Yazoo City , recently arrived at Demopolis , Ala. Among them was a brother-in-law of Gen. Grant, with the rank of Captain.

For the past week or two we have had regular “hog killin’ weather,” and, from present appearances, we would judge that we are to have cold weather the balance of the year.

April 20, 1864

Georgia – Early County

Two months after date, application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of said county for leave to sell the Lands belonging to the heirs of Levi Price.

Mar. 9, 1864 21-2m W.R. George, Guardian

Notice to Debtors & Creditors.

All persons indebted to Ambros Collier, late of Early County, Ga., deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having claims against said deceased, are required and notified to present them, properly authenticated, to the undersigned, within the time prescribed by law.

March 30, 1864 24-6t James N. Evans, Adm’r.

Notice to Debtors and Creditors.

All persons indebted to the Estate of J. R. Powell, late of Early county, Ga., deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having claims against said Estate are requested to render them in, in terms of the law, or they will be barred.

M.W. Powell, Adm’x

R.A.J. Powell, Adm’r

Mar 2, 1864 . 20-tr

Notice to Debtors & Creditors.

All persons indebted to the Estate of John Windsor, late of Early county, Ga., deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having claims against said deceased, are required and notified to present them, properly authenticated, to the undersigned, within the time prescribed by law.

Mar. 4, 1863 [sic] 20-tf John W. Anglin, Admr.

April 27, 1864

News from the Front

To Messrs, S. J. Dickenson & S.S. Stafford, Committee,

The news continues to come in more gloriously as Spring advances. Thus far this has been a year of signal and overwhelming reverses to the Yankees. The last, best and most gratifying news that we have in the defeat and complete route of Banks’ army at Shreveport week before last by Gen. Kirby Smith, and the taking of Fort Pillow, just above Memphis, by Gen. Forrest a few days ago. The federal loss in the battle of Shreveport is estimated at 14,000. How glorious! – 14,000 more of the miscegenation gentry disposed of! Truly our prospects grow brighter with each succeeding day. The result of Gen. Smith’s victory over Banks, will, says the Chattanooga Rebel, change the whole condition of affairs in the Trans-Mississippi Department, and probably have an important influence upon the whole plan of campaign as concocted by the Yankee government. It will enable our forces to re-occupy Arkansas and the greater part of Louisiana , secure Mississippi from the presence of Yankee forces, and perhaps result in the invasion of Missouri . We already hold West Tennessee , with the exception of the river garrisons, and they are dropping one by one into our hands. With such suspicious results before us what may we not expect, when our grand armies rush, as they will soon do, upon the vandal foe?

April 27, 1854

Notice

Head-Quarters Early Co. , Ga. , Blakely, April 27, 1864,

All white male citizens of Early county, between the ages of 17 and 18 and 45 and 50 years, are hereby ordered to report in Albany on Wednesday next, 4^th day of May. Those failing to report at this time will subject themselves to be sent to the front with the class of persons between 18 and 45 years. And all persons discharged, prior to the 1^st of April, 1864 , are required to report at the same time.

28-12t A. C. West, Local En. Officer Earl Co., Ga.

Postponed Sheriff’s Sale .

Will be sole, in Fort Gaines, Clay Co., Ga., on the first ‘Tuesday in May next, the following property, to wit: One House and Lot in the town of Fort Gaines, known as James E. Heckworthy’s Taylor Shop. Levied on to satisfy a fi. Fa. Issued from Clay Superior Court in favor of John H. Jones and others vs. James H. Heckworthy.

April 1, 1964 . 28-tds James E. Smith, Sheriff.

Georgia – Calhoun County

Whereas, Redding Strickland applies to me for Letters of Administration on the Estate of Richard Sands, late of said county, dec’d: This is, therefore, to cite all persons interested to be and appear at the Court of Ordinary to be held in mid county on the first ….

May 11, 1864

Notice.

All persons who have made application for exemption or detail are notified to be at my office on Thursday, 19^th inst., for the purpose of allowing a re-investigation of their petitions by the Temporary Bard, most of said applications as having been disapproved and returned to these head-quarters.

May 11, 1864 30-2t A.C. West, Local En. Officer Early Co. , Ga.

Early Inferior Court In Chambers, \May 7^th 1864

Present their Honors, W.W. Fleming, M. T. Alexander and B. M. Fryer, Justices.

There being 18 pair Cotton Cards on hand for distribution among Soldiers families, it is ordered that a notice be published in the Early County News, calling on all Soldiers families, who are without Cards, to report to some member of the Inferior Court by the first Tuesday in June next.

A true extract from the Minutes.

30-3t James N. Evans, C. I. C.

Stolen,

Out of my Woodspasture at my Plantation , on Sunday night, 24^th ult., three Sows, twenty-four Pigs, two year old’s, and one Shoat. The pigs were all marked, with the exception of some four or five. The hogs are all marked with swallow fork and under bit in the right ear, and crop and bit in the left. Two of them red, the other black and white spotted. The shoat red listed – one of the others on the white order – the other black.

Any information will be thankfully received, and a liberal reward given for the perpetrator.

Blakely, May 11, 1864 30-tf Peter Howard.

May 25, 1864

Weights and Measures.

Persons are frequently puzzled in their daily transactions to ascertain what such and such an aiticle [sic] ought to weigh per bushel. Here is a table which all would do well to cut out and preserve. It will prove valuable for reference:

Bushels	Pounds

Wheat	60
Shelled corn	56
Corn in the ear	70
Peas	60
Rye	56
Oats	32
Barley	47
Irish Potatoes	60
Sweet Potatoes	55
White Beans	60
Castor Beans	45
Clover Seed	60
Flax Seed	56
Hemp Seed	44
Blue Grass Seed	44
Buckwheat	52
Dried Peaches	33
Dried Apples	24
Onions	57
Salt	50
Stone Coal	80
Malt	38
Bran	20
Turnips	55
Plastering Hair	8
Unslacked Lime	80
Corn Meal	48
Fine Salt	55
Ground Peas	25

A box 24 x 16 inches, 22 deep, contains 1 barrel.

A box 16 x 16 ½ inches, 8 deep, contains 1 peck.

A box 7 by 4 inches 4 ½ deep contains ½ gallons.

A box 4 x 4 inches, 2 ½ deep, contains 1 quart.

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To Stock Raisers

Confederate Money Wanted!

For Sale

In the field again!

Negroes for Sale